Maverick; A four week old foal with a surprising worm egg count result!
Foals are born free of parasites but get exposed to them within the first few days of life and we recommend proactively worming foals from four weeks old, every six to eight weeks. With wormer resistance increasing it can be advisable to put a couple of worm egg counts into your programme during this time but we don’t often get samples to test from very young foals. But as this handsome chap, a Quarter Horse foal called Maverick, belongs to one of our team, we were of course straight in to take a peak in his poo and were surprised at what we found!